"Studies have shown that eating breakfast can improve a child’s nutrition, health, and academic performance. And those children who access breakfast at school are less likely to be food insecure. And so we know that low-income kids get more of their daily food intake from school meal programs than other students, and if they don’t eat breakfast at school, they might not have access to breakfast at home."

Loder says Food Bank for the Heartland and the Food Bank of Lincoln have seen a “dramatic increase” in the number of people needing assistance.